The Nervous System

The Central Nervous System (CNS) is comprised of?

• Brain and Spinal Cord

• Brain, Spinal Cord, and Spinal Nerve Branches

• Spinal Nerve Branches

• Spinal Cord

The Peripheral Nervous System is composed of

• Brain and Spinal Cord

• Spinal Nerve Branches

• Brain

• Brain, Spinal Cord, Spinal Nerve Branches

What is the function of the Peripheral Nervous System?

• Process incoming information from outside factors

• Conducts Information from other organs to the CNS and back again.

• Sends direct messages to the brain.

• Fight or Flight

What does you Central Nervous System (CNS) do?

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• It doesn't interact with anything and has little to no part in the human body.

• Controls Skeletal Muscles

• Interacts with outside factors (touch, taste, hearing, etc...

• Sends incoming signals from the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) to the brain and back.

Autonomic Nervous System does what?

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• Produces Hormones in the Body

• Controls Voluntary Movement

• Controls Involuntary Movement.

What does you Somatic Nervous System (SNS) do?

• Controls Involuntary Movement

• Controls Voluntary Movement

• Processes Information

• Helps speed up the speed of information from the Peripheral Nervous System to the Central Nervous System

The Autonomic is made up of what two parts?

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• Brain and Spinal Cord

• Somatic and Autonomic

• Nerves and Spinal Cord

• Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

What does the Sympathetic part of the Nervous System do?

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• Prepares body to perform in responses to external factors(Increase heart rate, increase blood pressure, etc...)

• helps with taste

• Processes Information from external factors

• Prepares the body for recovery from eternal factors (lowers heart rate, increases saliva production, etc...)

Carry message from body to brain from the brain to body.

• Nerves
• Neuron 
• Brain
• Spinal Cord

What does the Parasympathetic Nervous System do?

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• Prepares Body for recovery from external stressors (Decreases heart rate, dilates blood vessels, etc....)

• Prepares body to perform in response to external factors (increase heart rate, increase blood pressure, etc...)

• allows you to see

• Processes information